Psychologist / Nurse / Allied Health Professional Autism Diagnostic Team

Are you a Clinical/Counselling Psychologist, Occupational Therapist, or Nurse with a keen interest in neurodiversity, and a willingness and desire to progress in your career? If so , we want to hear from you. Our autism diagnostic service providing assessment and pre-and post-diagnostic support to adults across Hillingdon, Harrow and Brent is seeking a new team member to cover maternity leave for a year. This is an opportunity to help us shape and develop the future of the team and to work as part of a growing and developing service., As a practitioner psychologist, nurse or Allied Health Professional within the Autism team, you will be responsible for contributing to multi-disciplinary autism assessment and pre and post-diagnostic support. We will enable you to develop expertise in assessments and interventions, alongside drawing on your skills and knowledge of autism to contribute to assessment and pre-and post-diagnostic support. There will be opportunities for you to develop a specialist area of practice aligned to service needs and your interests., The trust vision is Wellbeing for life. We work in partnership with all who use our services to improve health and wellbeing, and this is not different within our ASD programme with work to embed peer support and co development as the cornerstone of the service we develop. We are implementing a scheme to ensure that we are offering work opportunities to those form our non-diverse communities.

What we offer:

We offer a flexible working programme and believe that we need to support you both at work and at home to deliver the best health care we can. We will support you to develop your skills, and invest in you, you will have an opportunity to access specialist training, supervision and mentorship that will help you progress in your career.

About our team:

You will be joining a new and evolving team that already has highly skilled and experienced staff who can provided a safe and supportive place for you to develop and to support the service users we work with. This is an AHP led service with a senior management team made up of skilled and experience OTs, SLT's and Psychologist.

Our ideal candidate has experience of working with autistic people and is enthusiastic about working to improve services for autistic adults in Brent, Harrow and Hillingdon. We can also offer training in diagnostic tools if you do not already have this, and access to clinical and professional supervision to enable you to develop your clinical skills to work with autistic people.

CNWL is a major provider of Community and Mental health services across the South East of England. We employ approximately 7,500 staff who provides more than 300 different health and social care services across 150 sites and a number of other community settings.